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Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 5:15pm
By Haleema Shah

In the 2000s, dystopian stories like The Hunger Games and Divergent were wildly popular in young adult fiction. But one culture writer says that might be changing, and that dystopian stories are being replaced by stories by of teen suicide in the young adult fiction genre. We find out why.

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